Homeless Students Would Qualify for Tax Credit Enabling
Full-Time School Attendance

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Keith Ellison (D-MN) and Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced legislation this week to create the opportunity for low-income students to stay in their low-income housing and attend school full time.  Existing law forces such students to attend school part-time, or lose [...]

The United States – Israel relationship is unique. In 1989, Israel was officially designated by the United States as a Major non-NATO ally (MNNA). This has allowed Israel to remain an “unofficial” ally of the U.S. while at the same time conferring them a number of military and economic benefits.

It’s not like this is anything new, but I wonder how many people notice how often they are being advertised to. For example, there are ads in bathroom stalls, ads on buses, in movies, on television, on the side of the road, in restaurants, in schools, on the internet, while you pump your gas. There [...]

By Mumia Abu-Jamal

Our national politics is largely the stuff of illusion.  It is the stuff of spin. It is the manipulation of images to pluck the heartstrings, or to stoke the furnaces of emotion.
Any emotion will do: love, hate, fear, all are but instruments upon which politicians will play to move people to the polls, [...]

A reasonably evenhanded biography of Barack Obama, published last year, describes him as “an exceptionally gifted politician who, throughout his life, has been able to make people of wildly divergent vantage points see in him exactly what they want to see.”

Are you stumped by which has a lower carbon footprint: chemically grown Washington apples or organic New Zealand Fujis? Do you wonder which is worse for the climate: processed soy or pastured beef?

As the price of gasoline soars, Americans are forced to think in ways that they haven’t in generations: to drive, or not to drive? Do they park the car and opt for public transportation?

World peace must represent universal efforts. Anti-war priorities are first. However, since oppression is similarly destructive, informed and purposeful, some of us believe oppressors must be exposed and humiliated, if not punished.

It’s been awhile, but my excuses are relevant: I have no money and must work every free second I have to get by.  Exaggeration?  Yes, but my god things are hard.  I don’t even need to mention gas prices, the cost of food is going up, now that I have finished school I must start [...]

I feel uncomfortable telling people to vote for Barack Obama without tacking an asterisk onto the end of my plea. I feel disingenuous assuring my friends and family that Barack Obama is different than the other candidates and that once in office